In this event hosted by the Centre for Grand Strategy, Michael De Groot  introduces his latest book 'Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War'

Speaker: Michael De Groot

This book talk explains the decisive link between the global economic upheaval of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War. The West and the Soviet bloc, despite their ideological differences, confronted a common set of economic shocks such as the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system, the exhaustion of their respective economic growth paradigms, the rise of global financial markets, and price hikes in the commodities markets. The response to these shocks created a new international political economy that magnified U.S. power in unexpected ways and fractured the Soviet bloc.

About the Speakers:

Michael De Groot is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. During the 2024-25 academic year, he is also a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is the author of Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024).